chronicles of an igorot in australia. a photoblog in parts, this is intended as a diary, travelogue, memoir, journal, palimpsest, igorot blog, accounts of misadventures, running battles or whatever it turns out to be. there might be souls out there with common interests. do post a comment.

Sunday, 3 November 2013

About 150 runners took part in the 9km, 25km and 50km events on 20 October 2013.

Oh that's 150 runners and one plodder.

Top runners in the 25km run.

That must be the rock of Gibraltar range.

Surveyors creek.

Waratah (Burragorang word meaning beautiful) is the floral
emblem of New South Wales.

This rare wild flower may be seen on the trails up in the Washpool-Gibraltar range.

A story from the Burragorang dreamtime tells of Krubi, a
beautiful young woman who wove her cloak from the bright red hide of the rock wallaby
and the crimson crests of the ganggang cockatoo. Dressed in her scarlet cloak, Krubi
took up a post high on a sandstone ridge to wait for her love who went off to
war. One day Krubi’s young man went with other Burragorang men to battle enemy
invaders. The young man never returned again.
Grief-stricken Krubi spent her days waiting on the lonesome ridge where her
life ebbed away. Her body blended into the weathered sandstone where she used
to wait for her man. From the spot where Krubi died bloomed the first waratah, the
most beautiful radiant red flower that you see here.